#course

although she went home that night feeling happier than she had ever been in her short life, she did not confuse the golf course party with a good party, and she did not tell herself she had a pleasant time. it had been, she felt, a dumb event preceded by excellent invitations. what frankie did that was unusual was to imagine herself in control. the drinks, the clothes, the instructions, the food (there had been none), the location, everything. she asked herself: if i were in charge, how could i have done it better? ↗

— E. Lockhart

#golf-course-party #in-control #food

I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to electromagnetic wave theory in a special course, given for Army personnel at the University of Chicago. ↗

— Jack Steinberger

#army #chicago #course #electromagnetic #few

But while I loved all of these courses, there was an irresistible attraction of economics. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

#courses #economics #i #irresistible #loved

Because today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups... So I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power: that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#media #postmodern #power #science-fiction #motivational

The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment. ↗

— Malcolm Muggeridge

#cross #intercourse #orgasm #religion #salvation

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#mankind #most #most powerful #powerful #used

as soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions from reality, reality itself loses its discursive-logical consistency. ↗

— Slavoj Žižek

#fiction #ideology #imaginary #philosophy #real

I’m sexually attracted to statues made out of decomposing food. Is it normal to be hungry during intercourse? 
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— Jarod Kintz

#decomposing #food #funny #humor #hunger

The great thing about The Clash of course is that they keep searching for answers beyond that. ↗

— Lester Bangs

#answers #beyond #clash #course #great

Of course, nothing happens until somebody sells something. ↗

— Jim Barksdale

#happens #nothing #sells #somebody #something